时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语语境识词


英语课

  Unit 50

Face to Face with Tom Cruise 1

Change terrifies most of us. Not Tom Cruise. Want proof 2? His dad abandoned his family, and he grew up poor. He couldn't read, and teachers said he was dyslexic. But he stayed close to his mum and sisters, and turned himself into the biggest movie star in the world. He appears to thrive 3 on pressures and responsibilities, getting up every morning, putting on his million-watt smile and going at life hard.

This is Tom Cruise we are talking about, one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. But when he was born in 1962, he didn't have money, influence or famous friends. What he had was Mary Lee, his tough, optimistic mum, and a determination not to be just a good-looking average Joe. Cruise worked hard, moving to New York, then Los Angeles, to begin acting 4, and then created a wonderful life for the two kids he adopted with actress Nicole Kidman, whom he divorced 5 in 2001. That leads to one of the next big things Cruise would like to change: his status as a single guy.

The following is an interview given by Reader's Digest.

RD:Were you always close to your sisters?

Cruise:Always. Bing raised with women, I saw their side of things. I got an understanding.

RD:You seem to have a real respect for women. What is it that you like so much about them?

Cruise:They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I really do.

RD:What do you think your strength is as a parent?

Cruise:Everything! I'm a great parent. I want to be with my kids. They are happy. They get to do all the stuff 6 I wanted to do when I was growing up.

RD:What do you want your children to learn about life?

Cruise:I've told them anything is possible. I started them when they were young, first swimming, then riding, hiking, climbing. It's giving them confidence to learn, to put in them a sense of integrity 7, sympathy and understanding.

RD:Do you want to be married again and have more children?

Cruise:Yeah, yeah. I love kids. And I'd like to get married. I like being in a relationship.

RD:So how does Tom Cruise, single guy, find a girlfriend?

Cruise:They call me up.

RD:How is it going?

Cruise:I'm dating, but I don't have a girlfriend.

RD:And you're confident you'll find somebody?

Cruise:I have to. There has to be that woman out there. I want to be with someone who's going to be a lot of fun. Someone who doesn't mind traveling, loves kids, loves a lot of activities. Someone I can really trust, someone who can really communicate, someone who enjoys life.

RD:You reconciled 8 with your father before he died. What was that like?

Cruise:I saw him right before he died. So I don't fell regret. You look at people in his position, and you feel bad for them, for what they missed in life. I understand what he was going through.



v.巡航,航游,缓慢巡行;n.海上航游
  • They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。
  • She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。
adj.防...的,耐...的,能防护;n.校样,证据,证明;vt.检验,给...做防护措施
  • He is living proof of the wonders of modern medicine.他是当代医学奇迹的活证明。
  • The proof was fished up from some old papers.校样在旧文件中被找到了。
v.兴旺,繁荣,茁壮成长
  • These animals thrive on the leaves of certain trees.这些动物靠吃某些树的叶子长壮。
  • This flowering plant will thrive and bloom wherever you plant it.这种花随便你种在哪儿都能活。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.离婚的;分开的;不相干的;脱离的v.与…离婚(divorce的过去式和过去分词);分离;与某人离婚,判某人离婚
  • Apparently they are getting divorced soon. 看样子,他们很快就要离婚。
  • Many divorced men remarry and have second families. 许多离婚的男子再婚组成了新的家庭。
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
n.正直,诚实,诚恳,完整,完全,完善
  • The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
  • He is a man of the highest integrity.他是个极其正直的人。
学英语单词
a'cockbill
A.F.C
active sleep
alveololabial groove
assinuate
balloonry
beagled
bitter almond camphor
BLUS resifual vector
carpetbagging
case bay part
Chelidonium majus
clean cutting
Colbeckite
Confederate flag
copped tanke
crude test
cruzen i.
depressure tank
Dianthus sinensis L.
directional intermolecular force
down-faulting
duosecant
duration units
earn a good reputation
ex-dividend stock
fatuousnesses
ferryer
floorspace
foreign-exchange dealer
future commission merchant
galvanometer
Gangean
genus Uma
gone poof
half-neighbo(u)rhood
harbor craft
hawse-pipe
heat-resistant coating
helitankers
hoarhead
hyperinsulinemic obesity
instruction-based architecture
intussusceptive growth
lacinia falcata
ladening
leariest
limiter amplifier
lyeth
marchment
merry-go-round machine
microsaccades
microwave acoustics
mildew-retarding agent
missionise
Mitha Singh
molecular heat conduction
morality of law
mystinus
neocerebellar agenesis
no-load field voltage
nuclear power generation
oonin
pentastomiasis
photoerythema
pick-and-mix
pinch for
plywood ceiling
poison parsley
polynomial hazard function models
pop hole
Population-weighted
postflood
practicing
prognathometer
ricers
rippling edit
rober'
s's
Santorini's caruncula major
senior reactor operator
separating yarn
shock incarceration
shunting yard
slaw
small-denomination
starting air distributor
symploce furcata
tape speed
taxloss
Tellerette packing
temporary import
time per piece
to put to use
treib
unlabeled statement
vaginal hysterotomy
valvulae fossae navicularis
vertical photograph
wet process of parting
white gum
X-ray Luminosity of cluster of galaxies